Peter Ustinov

World leaders will descend on Chicago for the NATO summit May 20-21, protected by armored vehicles, magnetometers, terrorist watch lists, heavily armed soldiers and police officers. The security may be unprecedented in Chicago history. Here are 10 facts that we have locked down: 1 Before the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001, hardly any American used the word "homeland." Yet President George W. Bush created the Department of Homeland Security, upsetting writers such as Peggy Noonan, who thought it sounded too Teutonic: "It summons images of men in spiked helmets lobbing pitchers of beer at outsiders during Oktoberfest." She and others unsuccessfully suggested Heartland...

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